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Digital Plugin SL

This is the Softpulse installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin.magnonewfile.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3b5a8f7243eb45bc2961d7e7186f456d

SHA-1:
8b380ed480f763cbe635450207bd927ec4cc44a1

SHA-256:
6c56af917ae7863b79a55608dbfffcc7ad32faa8081bf21e47c6c669d09958de

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
6/30/2025 7:37:37 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.6.12

File size:
567.4 KB (581,008 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/27/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/21/2015 4:48:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:LJtxXpzNquXxf52Tp48Dskkl/nmXqY7EglxLthdM7W3vDbP:Ft7JDB52lf3w+XqY7NlZdiiP

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, AC, BD, 5C, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 0A, 54, E6, 2B, 19, 27, 7C, 0A, C0, 66, 4E, 8A, 35, 05, 5F, 48, EB, D8, 87, 74, 62, 2E, 07, AB, CF, 46, 98, F9, A7, E7, 81, 57, BC, 6D, E1, D2, 86, 21, D4, 5D, 2E, 66, EB, 05, C6, D0, 83, B7, DE, 83, 1B, 00, 5E, 20, 6C, 2F, F8, F2, C7, CC, 94, 16, 19, 50, C3, C0, 56, C7, AA, 6F, F4, 3C, 29, C2, DD, 3F, 4B, CA, C2, A1, AE, 25, 42, 09, F8, F8, A2, D2, 6C, ED, 50, A5, D5...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,227,776 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://admin.magnonewfile.com/vtR1btq_LjE_WDhddx2taI7uaxcpNuEtmX5uL0IPjtFK-7r2ASiq3ElItZMw6t20HRnQmziKD5ggj_P98kxRkZswiiaiFQfn-bNWfmBRo0qTy8MsKYMHGkFYyV_TcvRrVAIT-6Kd8Cg6y4ivb3OsMSe5P90o4CWjEklWvRVTEMikyG1iv_bpKqQ-8vP2HzMz3GH9LURSNGcaJFcpcP2ASZZO0QxQA61dti5dQ_NBnaoUJRuHjn-VJd60EDCdeCd6UERxXTkRXdS0eOs9ZIg2XWFk471qVhg8MnzMBOnp8JlxJgR1fIzwDP7pz68pvvxrV8pRd8qGg4AHsLqP337RPLqviBxN0ACWI-Un6hGT_3tvZBhAVmilmi4e47djN9gEQim_6gRlqOZhmoiQvWp-9g

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